mercantil
Catalan
Adjective
mercantil m or f (masculine and feminine plural mercantils)
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /meʁ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiw/ [meh.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiʊ̯]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /meɾ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiw/ [meɾ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /meʁ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiw/ [meχ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiʊ̯]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /meɻ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiw/ [meɻ.kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃiʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨɾ.kɐ̃ˈtil/ [mɨɾ.kɐ̃ˈtiɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨɾ.kɐ̃ˈti.li/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
- Hyphenation: mer‧can‧til
Adjective
mercantil m or f (plural mercantis)
- (economics) mercantile (related to the exchange of goods for profit)
Further reading
- “mercantil”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French mercantile.
Adjective
mercantil m or n (feminine singular mercantilă, masculine plural mercantili, feminine and neuter plural mercantile)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | mercantil | mercantilă | mercantili | mercantile | |||
| definite | mercantilul | mercantila | mercantilii | mercantilele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | mercantil | mercantile | mercantili | mercantile | |||
| definite | mercantilului | mercantilei | mercantililor | mercantilelor | ||||
Spanish
Etymology
From mercante (“merchant, mercantile”) + -il.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meɾkanˈtil/ [meɾ.kãn̪ˈt̪il]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: mer‧can‧til
Adjective
mercantil m or f (masculine and feminine plural mercantiles)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “mercantil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024